On Nov 3, 8:27*pm, Bill wrote:
I've been wondering about having an oak floor through the d/room, hall
and l/room.

The problems I can see a

* Access to a burst pipe would surely be a nightmare. I have seen
individual planks replaced by cutting the original out with a circular
saw but knowing my luck with houses, there probably would be leaking
pipe at some point.

* Some of the floorboards have warped because of central heating
pipes. Surely this might cause a new floor to lift as well?

Would it be worth changing all the floorboards for new ones (some of
the existing ones are pretty bad).


In our Victorian house lots of the boards had been severely chopped
during repeated installations of pipes and wiring. We swapped these
for longer runs from other parts of the house where the boards are
hidden, and then we had the whole thing sanded and varnished. We
think it looks great, but of course it does not look new.

I also like the abilty to lift individualy boards, so we screwed down
quite a few of the new boards for easy access.

Robert